Well...Hello.
I've been using this page as a reference for some time, so I guess it was about time I tried to inmerse myself in it.
I'm relatively new to music in general. Both my parents have been musicians at some point of their lives (My father still is), so, when I finally got 'really ' interested about a year ago, I had a bit of a head start. I got into prog mainly thanks to a friend who lent me "In the court of the Crimson King", and to a lesser extent thanks to Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. I only knew that all that music was called "progressive rock" later - and, some time later, here I am today.
I'm 17 and I'm from Spain. I love more or less all genres of prog, but not equally (I admit a certain positive bias towards ecclectic, symphonic and avant-prog.) My favorite prog artists would be Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Porcupine Tree, Rush, maudlin of the Well, Pink Floyd, Zappa, Henry Cow, Phideaux, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Explosions in the sky, Echolyn, Univers Zero, Dr. Dopo Jam, Beardfish, Cardiacs, Ayreon, Green Carnation, Marillion...Ugh, I just find it too hard to choose. Maybe Pat Metheny too? And other fusion jazzers like the Mahavishnu.
As for non-prog, I guess I could choose some "half-proggers" like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Beatles, Radoihead and David Bowie, and add some bands like Mod Flanders Conspiracy, Soundgarden, Faith no More or Boston. I love jazz and classical, but I haven't really gotten into them yet
And uh...I also love philosophy (Epistemology and philosophy of mind in particular), cinema (I guess my favorite movies could be Scorsesse's Taxi Driver, Aronofsky's Requiem for a dream and Buñuel's The exterminating angel(I have to get more into surrealism.)), literature (Cortazar? Garcia Marquez? Tolstoi? Camus?) and some instances (I'm obsessed with that word, and I don't even know if I'm using it right
) of japanese animation (Usually mind-screwing like Evangelion, Paranoia Agent, Lain.)
And this ended up being too long. Well...Hello!
(I must admit that I find this emoticon to be kind of disturbing.)
Edited by Endomae - January 22 2012 at 12:23
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Mainly into Zappa, Cardiacs, Univers Zero and Henry Cow. Mirthkon, Buldozer, Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3 too.
If you haven't checked them out yet, I'd recommend you Le Orme. 
